Natalie "superstar" Cross continues to kick some butt with another fine performance and a win on Ockley in Surrey. Using a combination of EFG131 and EFG120 with JPz as hook bait the rest of the field was humbled with her 88lb winning weight.
Ton up man Gordon Parker has a devastating new tactic. Let me explain.
We all know that in a match the angler who has a little more room is hard to beat.
Well Gordon's new tactics are to set his partner Bad Barbara on to the anglers either side of him. No one knows if she verbally abuses them or just gives them the evil eye but her tactics are certainly working with 3 times out of the last 4 matches, anglers either side have packed up early and gone home leaving Gordon loads of room.
When the said anglers were approached all they would say is "no comment" and all seemed to be terrified of repercussions.
Robber Marlow has been quietly taking some coin of fellow anglers at The Glebe and Packinton fisheries winning or framing in every match.
Keeping it simple with EFG 150/151 and krilled maggots as feed.
During the last 7 matches almost 600lbs of fish everyone on a JPz. with weights of up to 200lbs.
Glen Greasley has qualified for the still water champs final for the second year running using his favoured EFG131. Glen really does seem to be on fire at the moment with two local evening match wins as well and as if that's not enough he also set a new lake 3hr venue record on one of those matches, can i have a pint of what hes drinking please.
Total Coarse Fishings Kevin Wilmot won a recent match on Elm Lake at Decoy Lakes in Cambridgeshire. Kevin weighed in 70lb 8oz with second place some 12 lb 8ozs behind.
The match was a complete sell out with all 24 pegs in.
Kevin has asked that we dont let the cat out of the bag regarding his choice of bait as he belives it is giving him the edge over his rivals, so all i will say is that hes using a small red pellet that stays on the hook rather welll, especially when being fished shallow on the pole.
Sorry Kevin
Chris "Ace" Downs despite two iffy draws has managed two respectable results with a 3rd and 4th place overall. Chris has been putting AFP310 to good use both down the edge and on the feeder, showing just how good this paste really can be.
Francis manged 2nd place overall at Lakeside fishery in Wigan on what turned out to be quite a hard day for most of the field, weighing in a mixed bag of 27lb fishing expanders coated with SFA430
The anglers either side didn't even break the pound barrier,enough said really.
It's not all about great match results and personal bests as John and Matt Hall proved this week.
The brothers took a 356 mile round trip to Hordle Lakes in Bournemouth to promote Marukyu at the shops / lakes open day.
Hordle lakes is a bit of a specimen hunters paradise but when John and Matt got there and enquired how the nights fishing had gone to find that only 3 fish had been caught from 18 rods.
Matt did the fishing and John did all the technical stuff explaining the science behind the baits.
It took a little while for the anglers to come over for a chat but as Matt continued to bank carp after carp (12 in total) the anglers started to show a lot more interest in what was happening.
Matt fished the method with EFG131 and double JPz as hook bait and by the end of the session every angler who watched their local lake being taken apart bought some EFG131, EFG151 and a tub of JPz....mission accomplished.
As for me this week i was at Burgh Apton near Norwich and manged to sneak a little win.
It never fails to amaze me the pulling power that Nori pellets have, fishing JPz over 6mm Nori pellets on the short pole line and AFP310 in the margins over 3mm Nori pellets the swims just got better as the day went on and i weighed in 85lb 14oz all carp bag.
The match was a complete sell out so with all the pegs in so weights were a little lower than normal with anglers either side of me weighing in 50lb and 40lb but a wins a win as they say.
My travelling partner Cliff tried to be clever and make his AFP310 go a bit further by mixing it 50/50 with white breadcrumb and well he ended up 6th overall - lesson learnt me thinks especially as he normally frames on paste at this venue. |
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Welcome to Lee Pullen's blog. Over the coming weeks i will be putting together some reports from around the country from anglers using Marukyu baits. I will also be giving away some secret recipes, tips along with a little bit of light hearted banter.
Lets start proceedings with my traveling partner Cliff Pilot who has been having plenty of success recently on paste including two back to back wins at Burgh Castle in Norfolk.
Cliff wont be too happy with me giving away his secret recipe but here goes anyway; four parts AFP310, one part SFA440 with a pinch of salt. Looks like i might be driving by myself to the next match now or at the very least a sarcastic well done mate from him next time he visits my shop.
Ben Emery, bless his little cotton socks, went for a swim on a recent match at his local venue and still had time enough to win the match such is power behind Markyu baits.
He was fishing shallow feeding a combination of 6mm Protein pellets with a dry mix of EFG131 with JPz on the hook but instead of keeping an eye on his float was too busy looking around the lake at what everyone else was doing and a carp decided to borrow his pole for while. Just for the record he actually weighed in a rather credible 98lbs.
Natalie Emery came 6th out of 300 during a recent fishomania qualifer at Lindholme lakes. On peg 70 on Bonsai lake she alternated between the method feeder and the 16m pole line for a weight of 39 kilos and a section win, kicking quite a few of the lads butts into the bargain.
Baits used were a mix of EFG131 and EFG120 on the feeder line and JPz on the pole.
Adam Cooper is a bit of a specimen hunter and managed to bank a rather good looking 28lb common this week. Bait and tactics i hear you ask, well lets give away a few of his secrets, firstly he soaked some 3mm Protein pellets in some liquid krill which was to give him his bed to fish over but rather than introduce a load of free offerings boilie wise the tight, sorry i mean clever angler he is fished a single Kani boilie hook bait.
Boz Phillips is doing the business in Cornwall with yet another open win to his name. He drew in the middle of the snake lake at Mid Cornwall fisheries which is not the best place to be with the corner pegs winning most matches there at the moment - but this did not stop the bagging machine that is Boz. Time to give away some of his secrets but not all of them or he will be after me, what i can say is he's feeding EFG131 with corn soaked in SFA 420 and a few Krilled red maggots on the long pole line and the same prepared corn in the margins and alternating between corn and maggots on the hook.
Robber Roy Marlow lived up to his name winning at his own fishery again.
In his defence he drew the peg that nobody actually wanted and still turned them over, I'm sure he knows all the fish by name. Lets spill the beans on how he does it. On this occasion he fed EFG131 with 25% EFG 120 to act as a binder laced with some Krillemaggots at a reasonable distance and fished the forgotten art of a waggler over the top. Way to go.
The 'Margin Monster' true name to be revealed at a later date is still doing the business at the Glebe fishery in Leicestershire and has managed to put eleven ton plus weights on the scales in his last twelve matches using his now famous dead red krilled maggots with EFG 131 tactics.
Brain Cox has been picking off some cracking 2lb plus roach including one of 2lb 10oz which was a personal best for him, very well done, but in his own words he is also picking up the odd nuisance 20lb carp. What a shame eh?
James Adcick continues to take his local fishery apart with yet another win and only 3lb behind the lake record, if he only hadn't of got up of his box for a wee. The fishery is so impressed with him and Marukyu baits they have even enquired about a fishery sponsorship.
I think its only fair that i let everyone know how James keeps on winning, he is feeding EFG130 on the dry side and fishing shallow over the top with JPz's on the hook, sorry James but its about time someone else won a match there.
Richard Morgan had an incredible match on Heron Lake at Cotgrave Country Park weighing in a rather impressive 119lb 11oz totally blitzing the opposition with the second place angler weighing in 56lb. Using his head, no not as bait, he found that the fish wanted to be in a couple of feet of water and so targeted them with small walnut sized balls of groundbait of EFG 151 and JPz as hook bait and took fish to 9lb. The feeding pattern was one small ball per put in. Very well done Richard like your style.
Just to prove that not all Marukyu field testers and pro team members always do well Chris Downs fished a British Stillwater championships qualifier at Boddington Res and totally cocked it up catching only two carp and a few silvers, never mind mate it happens to the best of us.
As for me, well what can i say this week i fished a match at Taswood Lakes near Norwich and managed to come second from what should have been a winning peg. I drew an end peg with just the two overhanging trees and an aerator to fish too and had more than enough fish on the hook to win but managed to lose them in just about every way imaginable including one which went round my keepnet and made look rather silly whilst being watched by two passers by. I weighed in 51lb 3oz which was 9oz behind the winner. The magical baits used were JPz in open water over 3mm Nori pellets which banked 9 skimmers/bream to 4lb and AFP310 in the margins which accounted for 10 carp.
As you can see i normally condense all the reports that i receive but the following report from Tim Hodges is so informative it would be rude of me to condense it so here it is in its entirety.
THE SPOD FLOAT
At this time of year carp will often spend most of their time in the surface layers. The obvious ways to catch them is to either fish on the surface or just under the surface with a zig rig. Both of these methods work well but there are times when the carp can be very spooky on the surface. Zig rigs are difficult to set at the correct depth; this is due to variations in the bottom topography of the lake.
I have recently been having some exceptional success using a spod, not only as a float but as a way of feeding also. By using a spod as a float I can fish my hook bait at the precise depth of my choosing. Then I can load the spod with a mixture of ground bait and chopped boilies, which will slowly fall out of the spod falling past my hook bait. This way of using a spod not only allows you to present a hook bait in a way that a lot of carp are not used to but you can cast a spod further than most surface controllers. You will also find that the spod float does not drift so fast in the wind as a surface controller does. THE SET UP There are two ways to set up a spod float. You can either use a lead clip arrangement or a helicopter set up. My preferred set up is the helicopter version as this is less prone to tangles, especially if you have to use longer hook links. Firstly I shorten the loop of line on the spod so that it is really short. I then take a small length of anti-tangle tubing about 6cm. Using a couple of beads and a large eye swivel to create the helicopter rig this is held in place by a tail rubber which is pushed onto the swivel of the spod. I then tie on a hook link set to the depth that I think that the carp are swimming at. Simple and deadly on its day. GROUND BAIT MIX I mix my ground bait on the dry side as I find that this helps it to dissolve slowly out of the spod. I want a ground bait that has lots of particles in it so EFG 142 is ideal. To the EFG 142 I add some broken boilies and some sweet corn or maize. This is mixed with some liquid Krill to get a slightly damp mix that I mentioned earlier. HOOK BAITS Your hook bait can literally be anything. I have had good success using very dark boilies, but it is worth trying different colours to see what the carp prefer on the day. Maggots can be deadly if small nuisance fish aren’t a problem, just add a few to your ground bait. HOW TO FISH THE SPOD FLOAT Don’t cast the spod float about randomly; try to cast it to where you see the carp most often. The ground bait should help concentrate the carp in that area with repeated casting. It can also help if you catapult boilies over the top of the spod. Bites are usually ferocious as the spod acts like a bolt rig with the carp being hooked in the top lip which they are also not used to. Give the spod float a go it is especially useful when fishing over very deep water, where zig rigs are difficult or impossible to use. On a recent trip to France I had over sixty carp up to 42lbs in a week all on the spod float. |
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